"Hmm -" Kurumi pressed her temples and rubbed her head, which ached from thinking, "So, in order to train her personality, let me steal her rabbit doll?"
"good."
"Aren't you afraid of her outburst?" Kuang San narrowed his eyes: "The rabbit bites people when it is anxious, not to mention that this little rabbit is an elf with the power of an angel."
"So this plan will take a few days to be implemented. At least Yoshino must trust the people here enough."
"Does it need to be so troublesome?" Esdeath rested her chin on the back of her hand: "Just enter my torture room..."
"After a while, I will let the Heart Pirates return to the North Sea. Bebo will almost become your exclusive doll!" Eric muttered: "If you don't want to participate in the plan, don't interrupt."
Esdeath remained silent.
Kurumi gave her a "you deserve it" look, "I stole her doll in the shadows, what should I do next?"
"Hmm~" Clearing his throat, Eric stroked his chest with his left hand, stretched his right arm diagonally upward, and said the next step: "Then it's the prince's turn to appear!"
…
The scene immediately became quiet.
"..." The sight of the other women made Eric's face burn while he was posing.
"Hahaha..." An innocent and bright smile appeared on Mijiu's face. She squeezed over and hugged Eric's arm with both hands: "Darling is my Prince Charming~ You saved your Mijiu~ "
"Yes, really..." Eric's tone rose at the end. Seeing the fully maintained smooth skin at an extremely close distance, as well as the close physical contact, and the fresh fragrance of violets, made the male hormones secrete faster. accelerate.
The eyes of several other people were focused on Eric.
"Please stop complaining when you two are alone..." Kuang San suppressed his unhappiness.
"Yeah." Chitong nodded heavily: "And... Eric, your heart is beating so fast."
"I'm in good health." Eric interrupted and asked her to continue. She didn't know what shocking quotes Chitong would say.
"So, what happens next?" Kurumi turned the conversation back to Yoshino's question: "Next, you take Yoshino around to look for her doll?"
"As expected of Kuang San, you guessed my plan right away." Eric gave a thumbs up.
"While Yoshino is weak and helpless, Eric-san takes advantage of the opportunity to penetrate deep into her heart?"
"Miss Kuang, Miss Kuang...?"
"Push Yoshino's favorability level to the highest level, and that night, lick her whole body carefully as if investigating her body, and taste her taste carefully..."
"No, no, no..." Eric shook his head out of the phantom: "Why do you think so?"
"Darling... so bold!" Mijiu covered her mouth with her hands, her beautiful eyes widening.
"Miku, you've been fooled by Kuang San!"
"I think Kurumi is right."
"Lian, even Chi Tong...is my credibility so low?" Eric lowered his head in despair.
"You're kidding~" Kuang San chuckled: "You don't have the courage..."
Eric smiled bitterly: "Is this a compliment or a disparagement..."
Everyone looked at each other and smiled.
"Obviously, even this ripe fruit that I can pick at my fingertips has been hanging alone on the tree for so long..."
"Hmph~" Esdeath exhaled through her nose: "All the public food is mine."
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became sinister.
Kurumi glared at Esdeath, while Esdeath had a victorious expression on his face, his gaze passing over his bulging chest.
The corners of his mouth raised, looking down at Kurumi.
"Okay, okay!" Eric interrupted the line of sight between the two of them: "I took Yoshino to look for the doll, and took the opportunity to talk to her to increase her courage as a master."
"I understand. I will hide the doll in Yoshina's closet and remember to look for it." Kuang San sighed heavily: "It feels really complicated to help the man you like chase other women."
"Yeah." Chitong nodded.
Miku turned to look at the two of them, and used her arms harder.
"Esdeath, remember to speak gently to Yoshino, she is also a companion."
"I understand." Although Esdeath looked down on the weak, he was very friendly to his companions.
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"Huh? Yoshino, what are you looking for?" Baby-5, who was wearing a maid outfit, was cleaning the house and happened to meet Yoshino who was hurriedly looking for a doll.
The voice of baby-5 made Yoshino's body tremble greatly. Yoshino trembled and slowly backed away.
"Huh?" Completely different from her original lively personality, Yoshino is now a frightened little beast, and baby-5 frowns slightly.
Yoshino's beautiful appearance and lively personality have accumulated a lot of popularity among the women's groups on the ship.
After baby-5 was corrected by Eric for her distorted dedication, she still retained her eagerness to help others. She wanted to help this child who seemed to need care.
"Ugh..." Yoshino turned around and jumped away.
"Ugh..." Baby-5 who stayed where he was was a little hurt: "I-am I being hated?"
"No." Eric came a step late and saw the green shadow flash around the corner and disappear.
baby-5 stood up straight: "Captain Eric!"
"She's just too timid and doesn't hate you." Eric's voice reassured baby-5: "Now, we need to make her full of courage."
"Leave the rest to me." Eric patted baby-5 on the shoulder.
"yes."
A small green figure was quickly shuttled through the corridors of the Dauntless.
"boom"
Two equally petite bodies collided.
"Ah..." One of them let out a soft cry.
Wendy hurriedly got up from the ground and asked hurriedly: "Are you okay?!"
Wendy's voice made Yoshino shrink tighter.
"Are you injured anywhere?" Wendy immediately used healing magic, and a blue halo appeared on her hand.
The petite figure made a clicking sound, like teeth colliding together, and the whole body began to tremble slightly.
Yoshino's originally fair face turned pale. She stood up in panic and fled the scene again.
"Eh?" Wendy was left standing there helpless.
"Oops." Eric's voice sounded next to him: "This is really a wrong step, a wrong step."
"Brother Eric!" Wendy looked at the direction Yoshino was leaving with a worried look on her face: "What happened to Yoshino? Is she okay?"
Eric patted his chest: "Don't worry, I will watch over her and won't let her get hurt."
"Huh~" Wendy breathed out softly: "Then leave it to Brother Eric. You must help Yoshino."
"give it to me!"
In a dark dead end, Yoshino curled up together, hid here, and whispered softly: "Yoshino..."
Yoshino's hide-and-seek behavior couldn't avoid Eric, who was fully open. The soft footsteps came closer and closer, making Yoshino's body tremble again.
Eric called softly: "Yoshino?"
The pale-faced Yoshino finally stopped running away, looking like she was about to cry, and raised her right hand high.
'Are you trying to summon an angel...' Eric knew that Yoshino was about to explode.
"Wait a minute!" Eric leaned to the right and lay on the ground: "I surrender! Surrender!"
Yoshino, who was about to wave his hand down, was stunned for a moment, and the movement of his hand immediately slowed down.
Then, with a trembling look, he put his right hand back to its original position, and the eyes under the hood began to peek at Eric.
Several people hiding in the shadows also breathed a sigh of relief.
"I didn't expect Darling to be lying on the ground."
"At last we didn't cause any big trouble."
"Alas, let him wipe my floor with his body next time."
Eric remained lying down and slowly raised his head: "Don't be anxious."
"..."
Yoshino said nothing, and kept staring here with a vigilant expression.
"Look at your appearance...are you looking for something?" Eric went straight to the point.
"...!"
In Kuang San's shadow, someone wailed a little:
"You're so stupid, your questions are too straightforward!"
"Are you looking for your doll?"
"...!" The moment Eric finished speaking, Yoshina opened her eyes wide in surprise.
Then he approached Eric in a panic, grabbed his head with his hands, and wanted to shake it like an interrogation.
"Um, it hurts a little...can you stop?"
Yoshino's hands finally left Eric's hair.
Eric looked directly into Yoshino's eyes: "Did you lose the doll?"
"Tsk, you know the problem and you still ask, you scumbag." Eric seemed to hear Kuang San say this.
Yoshino nodded vigorously and looked at Eric with uneasy eyes, as if asking "Where is the doll?"
Eric wanted to tell her the answer for a moment, but held it back.
"H-I'm sorry, I don't know where it is either..."
Hearing Eric's words, Yoshino showed an expression as if it was the end of the world, squatted down in despair, and began to cry "woo woo"
"You made a little girl cry, what a bastard!"
'These guys actually slandered me crazily when I couldn't refute...! Eric half-closed his eyes and glared at the shadow.
"He's staring at us, he's staring at us~"
"If possible, can I help you find the doll?" After Eric said this, Yoshino raised her head in surprise. I felt pity for her big blue eyes with tears in the corners.
After a few seconds, his pale face brightened, and he nodded vigorously "Yeah".
[Yoshina's favorability level has increased slightly. 】
"Okay." With this word, Eric breathed a heavy sigh of relief and got up from the hard floor.
"Where and when did the doll disappear?"
After Eric asked, Yoshino's eyes wandered, as if he was thinking. After hesitating for a while, he said intermittently: "Today, when I first woke up, I realized that she was missing."
"Really..." Eric asked, "Have you looked for your room?"
"...!" Yoshino opened her eyes wide: "No, no... because she was too anxious,... afraid... she ran away from home, so she went out... to search, and ended up meeting several other people..."
"Okay, then... let's start from your room, Yoshino."
Yoshino nodded: "We must... find... my friend."
"Don't go to the closet to look for it. Even if it's not there now, it would be too fake to find it there after searching for it." Kuang San warned softly.
"I'm not that stupid."
"That's hard to say."
"..."
So the two started their journey to find the doll from Yoshino's room.
A slightly messy bed and an empty tabletop appeared in front of them.
Yoshino blushed and wanted to block the bed, but couldn't do it because of her height, so she squirmed around anxiously.
"It's okay." Eric comforted: "It's more important to find your friends."
"...Yeah." Yoshino nodded.
Eric lifted the quilt and pretended to search.
"Ara, does the bed where Loli slept excite you so much?"
"What are you talking about?" Eric retorted in a low voice: "After Esdeath's education, how can I be excited about this thing?"
"Click"
Eric seemed to hear the sound of Kuang San's sanity disconnecting.
For the sake of his own safety, Eric didn't ask what the sound was.
"No..." Eric turned to look at Yoshino: "Would you like to ask your companions on the boat?"
"..." After just a moment's hesitation, Yoshino nodded in agreement.
"Um..." In the corridor outside the dormitory, Yoshino called to Kuina, who had just returned from morning exercise. Due to sweat, a lot of black hair was stuck to her forehead. Her slightly heavy breathing sounded hot, and from her mouth Squirting out of the open mouth.
"What's the matter?" Guina stopped and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the towel around her neck.
"Have you... seen... my friend Yoshino?" Yoshino was a little scared and her voice sounded like a mosquito.
"..." Guina moved her eyes and noticed that the doll she had been wearing on her left hand was not in her hand: "No, do you need me to help you?"
"...Yeah." Even though she was scared, Yoshino nodded.
"I'm going to put down the bamboo knife, and I'll help you find the doll." Guina left here in a hurry.
Eric looked at Guina's retreating figure: "Look, the partners here are very enthusiastic."
"……Um."
I met a second person on the deck. The middle-aged man saw a minor and took the cigarette out of his mouth.
"Um... have you seen my friend Yoshino?" With Eric's encouragement, Yoshino asked others again.
"Sorry, I didn't see it." Kulikai spread his empty hands, and then showed a generous smile like an uncle: "Little girl, do you want me to help you look for it?"
"Yes!" There is strength in numbers, Yoshino nodded heavily, and her courage also increased little by little during the conversation.
"I'll show you what I'm capable of, uncle!" Kulikai exaggeratedly bulged his biceps, trying to cheer up the sad Yoshino.
"...Ha" Yoshino laughed slightly.
Seeing Yoshino becoming more and more proficient in communicating with others, Eric felt relieved.
In the infirmary on the second-floor bridge, I met a young man with fierce eyes.
"..." Luo hugged Gui and cried, looking at the three people in front of him speechlessly.
"..." Yoshino hid behind the two of them.
"Luo, can't you change your fierce eyes?"
"……intrinsic."
"Aren't you a surgeon? You need a plastic surgery!"
"Hmph!" Luo pouted, "What do you want from me?"
"Yoshino, come here, aren't we looking for your friends?" Eric encouraged: "Don't worry, I will protect you."
"..." Luo's eyes trembled as he watched Eric trying to persuade Loli.
"...Um...have you seen my...friend, Yoshino?" Yoshino's voice started to be broken again.
"No." Luo stood up from his chair.
Yoshino trembled and hid behind Eric, only revealing his big sapphire blue eyes, peeping at Luo on the opposite side.
Luo said helplessly: "...I'll help you find it too."
"……Um."
In the end, even Leonardo da Vinci, who had been busy with experiments, participated in Yoshina's "hide and seek" project.
The search lasted for half a day until an interesting sound like "Gululu..." came from Yoshino's stomach.
Yoshino squatted down on the spot and pulled down his hood to completely cover his face.
"Yoshino, how about taking a little rest?"
Yoshino shook his head, and then the sound of grunting came again.
"Look, if you fall, you can't continue looking for your friends." Eric advised: "Everyone is hungry too."
The two sisters, Kalenkana, rubbed their bellies at the right time, pretending to be hungry.
After seeing the actions of the two, Yoshino nodded hesitantly.
Everyone gathered in the restaurant. Under the gaze of everyone, Yoshino's face slowly turned red again, and he pulled down his hood to cover his face again.
While waiting for Chitomi to finish cooking, Eric considered his words and asked: "You seem to attach great importance to that doll. What kind of existence is Yoshina to you?"
Everyone pricked up their ears and listened.
Yoshino's face was blocked by the hood, and a lovely voice came from under the hood: "Yoshino is my... ideal and longing for myself. I want to become no longer hesitant... very strong, Very handsome……"
"I still prefer the current Yoshino...don't you think so?" Eric asked for advice.
The companions on the boat nodded together. Even though Yoshino's voice was low and he spoke intermittently, the doll told a lot of jokes... everyone was a little uncomfortable with it.
Although Yoshino's face could not be seen, everyone heard a "bang".
'Are you popcorn...'
Yoshino wanted to pull down the hood again, but unfortunately the hood was already pulled all the way down.
"It's the first time I've been told that..."
Eric asked the question again: "Yoshina, you seem to always want to escape. Why?"
"I...hate pain, and I thought...those people must not like it either, so I wanted to run away."
Yoshino was crying from behind: "Yoshina is my...hero. Because Yoshino told me...even if something terrible happens, there will be no problem..."
Hearing this, Guina wanted to interrupt, but was stopped by Eric's eyes.
"Our people here will help you." Eric gently stroked Yoshino's head: "So, don't be afraid anymore."
"We will also help you find Yoshina, and we will never let you be approached by [painful things] and [terrible things] again."
Yoshino raised his head, his eyes under the hood showed a look of surprise, and he opened his small mouth: "Thank you very much..."
"Let's help Yoshino find Yoshino together!" Eric raised his right hand.
"Oh!" everyone shouted loudly.
Startled by the loud sound, Yoshino's body shook greatly, but she never made any move to escape. Yoshino found a rabbit doll in the closet in the room.
"Papa pa pa"
Everyone applauded enthusiastically, and Yoshino felt embarrassed. She brought the rabbit doll, and everyone heard the wonderful high-pitched voice again: "Hello, hello everyone, I haven't seen you for a day..."
"I really appreciate everyone's help. Then Yoshina can rest assured. Yoshina's mission ends here..."
"Yoshina...!" Yoshino hurriedly covered the doll's mouth to stop Yoshina from continuing to speak.
"I'm not leaving you, but trying to make you stronger, Yoshino." The doll's mouth opened and closed: "Look, there are so many enthusiastic friends helping you, and you can also rely on Eric and everyone. Bar?"
Eric took a step forward: "I will protect you, Yoshino."
Yoshino looked up at Eric and nodded heavily.
[Yoshino's favorability has been greatly improved, the bond level has increased from 1 to 2, and 1 bond point has been obtained. 】
